Satıkadın Müzesi

About Satıkadın Müzesi

The Satıkadın Museum is the restored home of Hatı Çırpan (1890-1956), known as Satı Kadın, one of the first women elected to the Turkish parliament. Kahramankazan Municipality decided to create the museum in 2012, restored and renewed the house, and opened it in 2014. According to the district governorship, it was the first museum built in the name of any of the 18 women who entered parliament in 1935. Satı Kadın was born in Kazan village, today Kahramankazan, in 1890. As a young woman she fought the village strongman Kara Yusuf over her father's inheritance and won, after which she became known as Satı Ağa, although her real name was Hatice. She supported the army with supplies during the War of Independence, worked as a farmer, and learned to read and write at the Millet Mektepleri after the alphabet reform. When women were given the right to become village heads in 1933 she was elected muhtar of Kazan, one of the first women muhtars in Türkiye. In 1935 she entered parliament as a deputy for Ankara, serving on the agriculture committee, and Atatürk suggested the name Hatı, under which she appears in the parliamentary records. She returned to Kahramankazan after her term and died there in 1956. The museum displays her belongings and clothes together with period objects, photographs and paintings, and museum staff tell visitors about her life. Her monumental grave stands in the garden of the house, and a park in the district is named after her, with a monument to her inside it.